Object number
2010/28
Title
Hampshire Farm Museum,
Collection
Description
This is a circular badge with a pin on the reverse. It has a plastic surface printed on the front in green with the words 'Hampshire Farm Museum', with the outline of a grannary on stone staddles, against a white background. It dates from the mid- to late-1980s. Manor Farm Museum at Botley, Hampshire, was opened by Hampshire County Museum Service in 1984, and later became a part of the Manor Farm and Country Park.
Physical description
1 badge: plastic
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Circular badge with pin. // Plastic surface printed on front in green 'Hampshire Farm Museum' with the outline of a grannary on stone staddles, against a white background. // 1980s. // ... Purchased as part of the Collecting 20thc Rural Culture project. // Manor Farm Museum at Botley, Hampshire was opened by Hampshire County Museum Service in 1984. // It was subsequently administered as part of the Upper Hamble Country Park - now the Manor Farm Country Park.', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_Farm_Country_Park - 'Manor Farm Country Park, formerly Upper Hamble Country Park, runs along the west bank of the River Hamble between the villages of Botley and Bursledon in Hampshire at grid reference SU496111. // The ancient duckpondThe park first opened in 1979. In 1984, the Manor Farm museum was opened. The museum site was once at the heart of the village of Botley[1]. The ancient duckpond in Manor Farm and the neighbouring St Batholomews Church are mentioned in the Domesday book[1]. There is evidence of a Roman Road running through the site [2], which would have been the route between the Roman settlements of Clausentum (Bitterne Manor) and Portus Adurni (Portchester)[3] // This park is on the site of the former Royal Navy shore establishment named HMS Cricket. // Once decommissioned in 1946, the buildings that were left behind by the Royal Navy were used to house citizens of Southampton that were displaced by bombing during World War II. The site was then known as "The Cricket Camp", until 1952 when it was no longer required for that purpose[4]. // Most of the wartime buildings have been demolished, but Manor Farm Country Park retains a much smaller "Cricket Camp" which is used by Scouts. It is also home to the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Activities Centre.'
Production date
1984 - 1989
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